how to dissolve 2 miditracks into 3 parts ?

Cubase
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I have a midifile of a Bach piece which is 3 voices notated on 2 tracks - e.g. one of the voices is sometimes on track one, some times on track 2. All notes are on midi channel 1.
How would you gurus dissolve the 2 tracks into 3 separate voices ? - the only way I can think of is to go through the tracks and manually change the midi channel - but surely there must be another way ?
TIA,
Mads

2

Your example has not been constructed in a way that makes automatic splitting very practical.

I would display the whole track in Score Edit and manually delete all but voice 1. Then again for the other two voices. It won’t take THAT long.

3

I’d just go through a part and shift-select all the notes that belong to the second voicing and change the MIDI channel to 2 and dissolve part by MIDI channels. I’d do the same for the other part and then combine the two parts of the second voicing and reset the MIDI channel.

4

yes - that’s the way I’m doing now it but it’s a fairly long piece.
I was hoping for maybe a logical editor that could do it automatically…
Mads

5

Problem is, how is Cubase supposed to know what note belongs to which voicing? :wink:

6

well - the voices don’t cross so maybe it could select 1 of 2 notes at the same position ?

7

Just had a shufty. There’s a LE preset to change low notes to channel 2. This could be modified to speed the process. Working on a tune, so I don’t have time now to play with it. It’s pretty straight forward.

8

Thank’s - yes that helps a little. but it’s still quite tedious.
And the voices DO cross which doesn’t make it any easier…
Mads

9

Could you maybe use “Dissolve Part” using “Separate Pitches”, then merge the ones you want on the same track?

10

Yeah, I had a feeling that was going to end up being the case. :wink:

11

Yeah, Bach tends to do that!

In the time you’ve spent trying to do this the lazy way, you could have finished the job manually 10 times over :slight_smile: